Plains Bride of 19 Ends Life After Acid Poisoning
Mrs. Sarah Lou Davis Raben, age 19, bride of last Christmas Eve, died at her Plains home after swallowing carbolic acid. Coroner ruled death by own action. notes to husband and mother mentioned troubled family relations. She was from Webster County near Churchill. funeral held at Plains Methodist Church with burial in Lebanon cemetery.
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Plains
Jack Raben
Raben
Ed Jenkins
Leslie
Liquor Ships Lose Amendment In House Vote
Washington June 16 The house merchant marine committee rejected an amendment proposed by Representative Bankhead that would have prohibited government aid to ships on which liquor was sold.
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Washington
House Merchant Marine ‘Committee
Representative Bankhead
South Ireland Votes On New Parliament
Dublin voters went to the polls today to elect an Irish parliament under the Anglo Irish treaty terms. The act marks a key step in the peace process, with turnout expected to be high across counties.
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South Ireland
Dublin
Asssociated Press
Ieland
Cotton Market Americus Spot Cotton Report
Spot cotton prices in Americus are shown with a cryptic notation AU W IAT ASL 1.041 1a and no clearly defined figures. The fragment provides little data beyond the location and general market reference.
Tragedy on Flint River Claims Mize and Owen
Arthur Mize and Fay Owen drowned while bathing near the Vienna bridge on Flint River. Rescue efforts continued after a night of searching with divers and grapnels as a strong current and high water hampered recovery.
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Arthur Mize
Fay Owen
Flint River
Flint
Vienna
Mize
Bob Palmer
Albany
Americus
Harvey
Summers
Willis McArthur
Fire Department
Shy
Glenn Little
Americus Kiwanis Club
Kiwanis Club
Nathan Murray
Chas A. Rogers
Windsor Hotel
Rogers
Bradley Hogg
Carl W. Minor
Toronto
Isohn Lind
Bartow Bagley, Jr
Mr. Chappell
Mr. Mize
Mr. Owen
Dooly
Legion Minstrel Draws Big Ovation In Rylander Show
Welber Smith and Carroll J. Clark Jr produced a two and a half hour Legion Minstrel at Rylander drawing huge local support. The first act featured strong interjections by Evan Mathis Jr and a lineup of performers, while the second part showcased a Mandolin club, a comic negrasque imitation, and the Watson Bell Hops with jazzy numbers.
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Welber Smith
Carrol J. Clark, Jr
Legion
Rylander
Evers
Lasses White
Neil O’brien
Evan T. Mathis, Jr
Welber
Three Taxi Slayers Executed in South Carolina
S J Kirby Jesse Gappins and C C Fox were electrocuted at the state penitentiary for the murder of Columbia taxi driver William Brazell near Leesville last August. They went to their deaths singing and praying. Gappins and Fox warned youths against bad company in final statements.
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Columbia
S. C
S. J. Kirby
Jesse Gappins
C. C. Fox
State Penitentiary
William Brazell
Leesville
Gappins
Fox
Vo taw in Atlanta for prison drug inquiry
H. H. Vo taw, superintendent of federal pris ons and a brother in law of President Harding, has arrived in Atlanta to take personal charge of a federal inquiry into an alleged drug trade at the prison arcade.
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Votaw
Atlanta
H. H. Votaw
Federal Prisone
President Harding
Federal Arcade
Dana Traf
Negro Denson Hanged After Mob Escape at Irwinton
Irwinton Georgia June 16 The negro Jim Denson who escaped a mob weeks earlier was hanged today for assaulting an aged white woman Governor Hardwick denied clemency noting a prior Prison Commission finding and the man’s confession and credible circumstantial details.
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Irwinton
Jim Denson
Atlanta
John R. Cooper
Macon
Wilkinson County
Providence
Hardwick
Denson
Cooper
Prison Commission
Georgia
Board of Pardons
Rules Girls May Puff Cigarettes in Boudoir
Atlanta dispatch reports a fashion of private smoking among girls with a quoted stance by Tudawn Canwea BR Tahnean asserting girls may smoke in boudoirs while public streets and joyrides remain tobacco free, reflecting era slang and social limits.
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Atlanta
Tudawn Canwea BR Tahnean
Walina
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Rette
Amias
O. B. Biggers
Marvin Giddings
Harrold
N.B. Warren
Joan M. Oweng
J.E. Dean
Clements
Broad and Marietta
Tanne
M. He
Mr. Turner
Tha Hviden
Legion Minstrel
LA Verne Thomas
Kirby
Gaffins
South Carolina
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